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http://dx.doi.org/10.4490/ALGAE.2003.18.4.281

Environmental Feature Causing a Bloom of the Novel Dinoflagellate Heterocapsa circularisquama (Dinophyceae) in Uranouchi Bay, Kochi Prefecture, Japan  

O, Seok-Jin
Ma,
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Mo,
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ALGAE / v.18, no.4, 2003 , pp. 281-288 More about this Journal
Abstract
To study the environmental features causing a bloom of the novel dinoflagellate Heterocapsa circularisquama (Dinophyceae), hydrographic and chemical aspects were measured in the Uranouchi Bay, Kochi Prefecture, Japan, from January to December, 1997. The cell density of H. circularisquama increased rapidly in early October, and dropped sharply in mid-October. Growth rate of H, circularisquama during bloom period appeared 1.50 division day$^{-1}$ under high water temperature (25$^{\circ}C$) and salinity (32 psu) conditions. Althought the result from hydrographic aspect indicated good condition for their growth, dissolved inorganic phosphorus (DIP) concentration in surface layer before bloom formation was less than 0.70uM, which is lower than their half saturation constant(Ks). Dissolved inorganic nitrogen(DIN): DIP ratio was > 30, indicating potential P-limitation. However, before bloom formation period of H. circularisquama, DIP concentrations were high in bottom layer (> 4.0 uM). Some studies reported that H. circularisquama had the ability to migrate vertically and to utilize dissolved organic phosphorus (DOP). Thus, DIP in bottom layer might have been utilized by H. circularisquama for their growth.DOP might have weakly affected their growth because of low reactive DOP concentrations owing to low DOP concentration (ca. 0.39 uM). Thus, if nutrient condition of bottom layer in Uranuchi Bay is not improved, the outbreaks of H. circularisquama red tides may became an annual feature.
Keywords
dissolved inorganic phosphorus (DIP); dissolved organic phosphorus (DOP); Heterocapsa circularisquama; Uranouchi Bay; vertical migration;
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